survivors – SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR)

China Will Never Be Crushed – Nanjing Massacre Victims Remembered! (14.12.2024)

14/12/2024 Adrian (釋大道)

“Ringing the Bell of Peace is not only a review of history, but also an expectation for the future. I deeply feel that only by remembering history can we cherish the present peace and the happy life. As an athlete, I will uphold the Olympic spirit of peace going forward and inspire more youth to contribute more to the aspiration of a powerful nation,” she said.

“The resounding peal reminds all generations to etch this once unimaginable period into memories,” said another bell striker Zhang Hongcheng, former president of Yangzhou University’s Research Institute of Rice Industrial Engineering Technology, adding that we must unite to achieve Chinese-style modernization, and educators should nurture more top talent to create world-leading innovations.

A candlelight assembly was also held to mourn the deceased and pray for peace.

In 2014, China’s top legislature designated Dec 13 as the national memorial day for Nanjing Massacre victims to promote peace and oppose the denial of history.

Nanjing Massacre: Another Survivor Passes Away – Only 54 Still Alive! (7.12.2022)

07/12/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the then-Chinese capital on Dec. 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.

Xiang’s brother and uncle were killed by Japanese invaders. On the way to retrieve the bodies of his family, Xiang saw corpses piled up on the river beach, and men, women, and children lying in blood. He survived as he had escaped to a refugee area.

In 2014, China’s top legislature designated Dec. 13 as the national memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre.

The Chinese government has preserved the survivors’ testimonies, recorded in written documents and video footage. These records of the massacre were listed by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register in 2015.

Email: Sneaky Chinese Seating Arrangements!

25/10/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

The two other Chinese men went down with the ship and were drowned! When the Chinese survivors got to the US – they were ‘arrested’ (due to the ‘Chinese Exclusion Act’ and the fact the Ku Klux Klan was receiving tremendous local and national support for all six Chinese survivors to be publicly ‘lynched’ for their alleged crimes) and were put into the Concentration Camp kept for Chinese people on Ellis Island – the lesser of two evils, surely! Representatives of the (UK owned) Donald Steamship Company managed to ‘retrieve their property’ around April 19th, 1912 and spirited them away! Ironically, the US government ‘relaxed’ ALL Immigration red tape for arriving non-Americans out of sympathy for their plight – providing they were ‘White’!

Titanic: The Forgotten Eight Chinese Passengers! (14.12.2020)

25/10/2022 Adrian (釋大道)

To this end, Donald Steamship Company bought these Chinese people a third-class group ticket – numbered 1601 – price £56, 9 shillings and 11 pence. The ‘Chinese’ names registered on this collective ticket are written in phonetic English and read:

1) Fang Lang

2) Choong Foo

3) Ali Lam

4) Ling Hee

5) Chang Chip

6) Lee Bing

7) Lee Ling

8) Len Lam

Amongst them the youngest was 24 years old whilst the oldest was 37 years old. As dispatch workers (who were sent anywhere at anytime with no Union support or protection) – these Chinese men were made to work more than 12 hours a day in terrible conditions – whilst receiving only one-fifth the pay of that earned by White (Umionised) workers doing exactly the same job!